MainView for CICS Management

Intuitive, integrated CICS management

Today’s consumers never sleep; they are always connected and demand rapid response times. As a result, digital workloads are can be more taxing than ever. BMC MainView for CICS Management is a digital business-ready performance management solution.

MainView provides an extremely easy to use integrated CICS management solution to monitor, tune, manage and automatically take action before these extremely disruptive and highly complex digital business workloads impact the business.

Powerful problem-solving tools

MainView for CICS Management has everything you need to identify and resolve performance issues before they cause problems. From a single point of control, you’ll be able to use these high-efficiency features to display real-time performance statistics, automate recovery and notification tasks, and optimize your CICS mainframe environment.

Centralized monitoring

Monitor and manage everything from a single interface, including the CICS Transaction Gateway, Multi-Region Operations, and stand-alone databases.

Mission critical metrics

Track transaction counts, response times, and throughput rates, as well as CICS-managed applications and platforms, including versioning and application response times.

Automation for maximum performance

Use an intuitive, graphical interface to build automation that can not only protect you from outages, but also streamline your CICS operations.

Business-centric viewpoint

Organize your performance statistics according to the business processes they impact.

Central, web-based interface

Enjoy the convenience of a user-friendly, web-based GUI that consolidates information from all of the MainView products you run.

Dynamic thresholds

Use the Threshold Advisor feature to set intelligent, dynamic thresholds based on real-time data and business cycles.

Historical reporting & analysis

Take advantage of sophisticated data views to compare historical and current data or build analytical reports.

Low overhead monitoring & automation

Save on resource costs by sharing information with other MainView monitoring solutions.

“We used the BMC monitoring solutions to see the volume of transactions per second we could sustain. The monitors showed us the breaking points and provided the data we needed to accurately calculate how much processing power we would need to handle peak loads at acceptable performance levels.”

Products included in this solution

BMC MainView for CICS manages traditional CICS and parallel processing environments from a single, powerful monitoring interface. Thanks to tightly integrated components, the product makes troubleshooting problems quick and easy. With its support for the CICS Transaction Gateway, ability to auto-connect to CICS regions, and simplified monitoring of CICS resources in MRO environments, MainView for CICS lets you manage your entire CICS environment from a single point of control. In addition, the product provides an at-a-glance overview of transactions running in a CICSPlex or a single CICS region, and shows how each transaction is using CICS resources.

BMC MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS automates CICS subsystems, so you can enjoy enhanced productivity, streamlined operations, and overall better service from your CICS environment, including TDQ message automation. The product can automatically take recovery or notification actions when any MainView monitor product raises an alarm. With an intuitive rule-building interface, MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS lets you to create powerful automation without the need for REXX coding. Replacing repetitive, error-prone manual interventions with automated ones will help you avoid costly performance interruptions.